He first saw a few of the caterpillar-like army worms in a neighbour’s bush early one morning in 2005...Within days, moving like a blanket of locusts, they devoured the entire village harvest. “They destroyed every crop...I vowed to do something...
Fort Beaufort :: South Africa
| updated Tue Dec 01 12:31:51 -0800 2009
| green-news
Reggie, a 3ft kingsnake, almost had to be put down when it mistook its tail for another snake and took a bite, but found itself unable to regurgitate the tail due to its backward-facing teeth. The snake’s owner was only...
Johannesburg :: South Africa
| updated Tue Dec 01 11:53:09 -0800 2009
| green-news
In all the talk about adapting to climate change, "scant attention" is being paid to "the dangers of ... [adaptation strategies] going astray in fragile and conflict-affected" countries, warned a report released on 28 November. Just under three billion people...
Protest spokesman Michael Mansell says a four kilometre-long stretch at Brighton, in a valley near where two rivers converge, was an ancient crossroads for Tasmanian Aborigines pre-dating Egypt's Pyramids. Artefacts have been discovered at the site and work has stopped...
John Odey stated this in his speech at a roundtable conference organised by the Senate committee on Environment and Ecology held in Abuja with the theme "Climate Change; Road Map to Copenhagen." Most Active Stories: Africa Most Read Most Commented Most
On Ecorazzi.com, self-proclaimed provider of green gossip, Paul McCartney and other green celebs offer meat-free Christmas recipes while Cate Blanchett muses on the Copenhagen climate summit. Ever since Al Gore's 2006 Oscar-winning movie "An Inconvenient Truth" put climate warming at...
Although rinderpest does not affect humans directly, it has killed countless millions of cattle, buffalo, yaks and their wild relatives, causing staggering economic losses and contributing to famine and social unrest. It swept into sub-Saharan Africa at the end of...
Cape Town :: South Africa
| updated Tue Dec 01 10:42:23 -0800 2009
| green-news
A South African climate negotiator says four major developing nations have presented a joint climate proposal ahead of a U.N. conference on global warming. Alf Wills says the document by China, India, Brazil and South Africa represents "different positions" compared...
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